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The companies we watch.
Every trade idea we publish starts here. This is the list of companies and indexes our screens scan each morning. Each name shows what it does well — consistent profits, growing sales, strong cash flow — and a quality grade so you can see at a glance how strong the business is.
Each name carries a quality score from 0 to 100 and a letter grade — our read on the strength of the business itself: whether it makes money year after year, whether sales are growing, and whether it turns sales into cash. A high grade describes the business, not the price — it doesn't tell you whether a stock is cheap or whether it will rise. The 24H badge means the stock can be traded 24 hours a day, five days a week, at our broker, TastyTrade. Indexes aren't graded. A name with a live setup today links straight to it.
Open any card’s Research panel for our model value at five time frames, the price range the options market expects, and what analysts think — each figure stamped with when it was computed.
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The list is reviewed every week, and names are added or removed as businesses change. Being on this list is not a recommendation to buy anything.
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Futures cards show the expected range from options on futures, plus each market’s own anchor: for stock-index futures, the basis against the cash index — and the cost-of-carry value when the dividend yield is sourced; for commodities, the shape of the futures curve itself. Interest-rate and currency futures carry no single fair-value anchor — a number there would be false precision — so their cards show yields, the curve, and the event calendar instead.
From the list to a trade
A name on this list is where a trade idea can start — it is not a trade by itself. On the equity side, a graded company usually reaches the screens as a cash-secured put, a covered call on shares you own, or a wheel that links the two. The strike itself comes from the rules in how we pick strikes.
On the futures side, the expected range on each card is the same options-market range our short strangles on futures are built around. Whichever side you trade, size each position for the bad month, not the good one — position sizing and the worst case walks through how.
How the research numbers work
Model value — earnings-multiple method. Our model values a company from its earnings and cash flow, capped at 1.25× today’s price. The value at each time frame is a model path, not a forecast: the gap between today’s price and the full model value is phased in gradually over the year, then adjusted — within tight, fixed limits — for current market conditions, recent news, and, at longer frames, outside analyst targets. Those adjustments are bounded responses to market conditions, not forecasts in themselves. The approach and the limits never change from day to day. When our two main models disagree too much on a name, the card instead shows a value from a third method — the company’s earnings per share times the typical earnings multiple for its sector — and shows our primary model’s figure beneath it.
Expected range. The range comes from the options market itself: the implied moves in the call and put options nearest each time frame, so the top and bottom can differ — that asymmetry is the market’s own pricing, not our view. When our range is wider, it is labeled our event-adjusted range and says why: an earnings date the options window doesn’t cover, a scheduled event outside that window, or major news that landed after the last options update. We never widen the market’s own range silently. It is not a guarantee — prices regularly move outside it.
Analysts. Targets are the median of analyst targets published in the last 90 days; research has long found published targets skew optimistic, so read them as the street’s hopeful case, not a promise. The rating mix counts each firm’s latest rating.
Honesty states. Some cards show no model value at all — for indexes and ETFs, which the earnings model doesn’t value, and in the rare case where our models disagree and no other method can be computed. Companies whose earnings run in strong cycles are labeled cycle-sensitive; when a company has just reported and the detailed filing hasn’t landed yet, its card says so — and if we use the earnings-release figures in the meantime, the value is labeled provisional.
Our own record. When one of our own recent trade ideas on a company is closed because its fundamentals weakened, we treat that company with extra caution for several weeks: new trade ideas on it are not marked Strong until the caution clears. A company’s research card itself is unchanged.
Every figure carries its own as-of stamp, and anything stale is labeled stale. This is decision support, not a recommendation.
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